Oak Hill News

At the behest of several affected business owners, Fayette County's Board of Health voted last week to extend by three months the implementation of an enhanced smoking ban.

Criminals looking to celebrate Independence Day by stealing from others should take notice in Lewisburg.

A three-year-old was injured while riding on an ATV in Raleigh County Saturday night, authorities said.

Fayetteville firefighters handled a bus in danger of rolling down a hillside, rescued two cats from a burning house and removed a downed tree within four hours' time Saturday.

Firefighters battled a Greenbrier County house fire for more than seven hours Tuesday, and one firefighter was injured, authorities said.

Volunteers are working to make repairs in Oak Hill. People from a Pittsburgh church are visiting Fayette County to help residents with some home repairs.

Adam Hynes trims a bush while working on the Tuscawilla Farm in Lewisburg. Established in 1844, the farm, for many years, was surrounded by others involved in agriculture.

Pat Mose, a flower designer in her third year with Greenbrier Nursery, looks over flowers.

Bodies will be bruised and bloody and fans will cheer on the carnage as superstars of the AWA Sanctioned Mountaineer Wrestling Association make a stop at the National Guard Armory in Buckhannon on June 28.

A convicted felon from Fayette County is on the run. According to West Virginia parole services, 23-year-old Daniel David Gordon ran from officers when they went to his Oak Hill home, Friday, to serve him with ...

Tristan Bragg, 8, uses the sidewalk as his canvas during registration for Fayette County Public Libraries' summer reading program Thursday morning at the Herbert E. Jones Library in Oak Hill.

Oak Hill City Manager Tom Oxley told city council members Monday evening that the city will have its annexation application for more than 650 acres of Wolf Creek Park heard by Fayette county commissioners next ...

City, county and state representatives - as well as the general public - have been invited to attend a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony for the White Oak Rails-to-Trails at 11 a.m. Saturday at the depot in town, ...

There will be a new face on the Fayette County Board of Education this summer. As Tuesday turned to Wednesday on election day, a heated battle for a Plateau District seat on the board played out.

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ; 12:53 PM Updated Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ; 01:01 PM Watch Story Video Two seats open Leon Newman ran uncontested in the Valley, but three Plateau residents battled for the other ... via WVNS-TV

Thumbs up ... to Princeton High School teacher Dale Lee, elected new president of the state's largest teacher group, the West Virginia Education Association. via Register-herald.com

“I think people's perception of what was going on and possibly what was or wasn't occurring was because they didn't know the full story”

All that Karin McGraw had in mind when she arrived at the Beckley VA Medical Center fresh out of college was a short tenure, then off to a career as a midwife. via Register-herald.com

“We will do whatever it takes. She's alone and left to fend for herself, and now she's lost everything, basically.”

A single mother and her four children lost their home Saturday when fire gutted their Raleigh County apartment. via Register-herald.com

“We all need to push each other.”

Hurricane officials plan to join four other West Virginia cities in a fight against global warming. via Charleston Gazette